Specialist Pharmacy Technician - Digital Medicines

Job summary

This is an opportunity to join a forward-looking Digital Medicines team at a pivotal stage in the Trusts Electronic Patient Record programme. The role sits at the interface of clinical practice, medicines optimisation, and digital transformation, supporting the implementation and ongoing development of Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) and wider Digital Medicines functionality.

You will play a key operational role in configuring, testing, and optimising digital medicines systems to ensure they are clinically safe, effective, and aligned with real-world workflows. Working closely with pharmacy, clinicians, and digital teams, you will support system adoption across the organisation through training, user support, and continuous improvement activity.

The post offers a balance of technical system work and hands-on medicines management, ensuring that digital development remains grounded in patient care. You will contribute to safety assurance, audit, and governance processes, helping to ensure that digital systems enhance, rather than compromise, medication safety.

This role is well suited to a pharmacy technician with an interest in digital healthcare, offering the opportunity to develop expertise in EPMA, clinical systems, and informatics within a supportive and evolving environment.

Main duties of the job

To act as an integral member of the Pharmacy Digital Medicines team, supporting the development, implementation, and optimisation of the Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) and Digital Medicines Optimisation components of the Trusts Electronic Patient Record Project. The post holder will contribute to the safe and effective deployment of digital medicines systems, ensuring they enable high-quality, patient-centred care across the organisation.

Working in collaboration with the Digital Medicines Team, the wider EPR project and clinical team, the role will support the implementation of electronic prescribing, medicines administration, and the medicines elements of electronic discharge processes. This will involve contributing to system configuration, testing, training, and go-live activities, ensuring that systems are clinically safe, operationally effective, and aligned with agreed governance and workflow requirements.

The post holder will play a key role in bridging clinical practice and digital system functionality, supporting multidisciplinary teams to adopt and use EPMA and wider digital medicines systems safely and effectively. This includes providing user support, delivering training, and contributing to the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures and user guidance.

Following implementation, the role will support the ongoing optimisation and maintenance of EPMA and Digital Medicines optimisation through Digital Systems..

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.